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Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found..
Daily Mail ^ | 03/30/11 | Fiona Macrae

Posted on 03/30/2011 9:07:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: SunkenCiv

FYI - this looks like Gods-Graves-Glyphs ping material.


41 posted on 03/30/2011 9:40:37 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: faq
Looks like a book with seven seals along the top, right, and bottom. Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?

HE he, ya for sure ...
42 posted on 03/30/2011 9:41:53 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: dragonblustar

Haven’t read the article yet, but were these written in Hebrew or Greek or Latin, or Aramaic?


43 posted on 03/30/2011 9:41:53 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“The Angel Moroni”

“as skinny as a stick of macaroni.”

Now that song is gonna be stuck in my head all day!


44 posted on 03/30/2011 9:42:26 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Cicero
Actually, the Dead Sea Scrolls reinforced Christianity. I attended a seminar with the Mrs. not long after we were newlyweds back in the 1980's. Fascinating stuff.

Of course, if one is so inclinded, you can cherry-pick quotes from the Bible to undermine Christianity. Much like libtards cherry-pick from certain sections of the U.S. Constitution to undermine the Constitution.

45 posted on 03/30/2011 9:42:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: UCANSEE2
The bible was compiled by the Council of Nicaea by Christian bishops. During the compilation, at least 17 books were discarded as not being of Godly influence. Books such as the Book of Jasper, Book of Sorrow and others were lost.

If you look here, you will note that throughout time, there have been several revisions, several deletions and several modifications. What we know today, is a fraction of what was origionally given; some debate whether we have enough - others say we have more than adequate.

My interest lies in first establishing the authencity of this discovery, and then what it says.

46 posted on 03/30/2011 9:43:14 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: BenLurkin
I count 12 seals. It must REALLY be dangerous.

You only need to remove 7 to open it.

47 posted on 03/30/2011 9:44:55 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: faq
"Looks like a book with seven seals along the top, right, and bottom. Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?"

Those seals probably created a lot of problems. Keep in mind that the transition from the scroll to codex format was not an easy one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo

48 posted on 03/30/2011 9:45:00 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: stockpirate

Gee, I was thinking of the “Copper Scrolls” by Rosenberg. Didn’t even think of the Mormons. But, I hardly ever think of that stuff.


49 posted on 03/30/2011 9:45:00 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (How long before the Mall becomes Tahifir Sq?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Seems the pictures in the photographs of the plates, shown in the article, rather resemble the VOYNICH MANUSCRIPTS.


50 posted on 03/30/2011 9:45:37 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster


I just translated what little information can be seen on this first metal plate. Here is the translation, as best I could make out.

Beware the Kenyan, for he shall _____ ______ and then cause many to suffer _____ _____ at the hand of Gog and Magog.
51 posted on 03/30/2011 9:45:48 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
The books were found in a Jordanian cave 5 years ago in a location where Christian refugees were known to have fled in 70AD. Initial metallurgical tests indicate that some of the books could date from the first century AD.

The pages are about the size of a credit card and contain images, symbols and words which appear to refer to the Messiah and, possibly even, to the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Many of the books are sealed. Says Dr. Margaret Barker, former president of the Society for Old Testament Study, “The Book of Revelation tells of a sealed book that was opened only by the Messiah.”


52 posted on 03/30/2011 9:47:05 AM PDT by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: Hodar
Big deal I found this at lunch -


53 posted on 03/30/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Just a little too much hype and jumping to unsupported conclusions at this point to be taken seriously. How many well made fakes have appeared in the last 20 years? Most of them.


54 posted on 03/30/2011 9:47:20 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: kosciusko51

“Obviously, not a Bible scholar. Paul wrote in the period BEFORE 70 AD. He was dead by the end of the first century.”

I stopped at the same passage. I think what they mean is they would be our earliest copies. Paul died about 65 A.D. But our earliest copies of his epistles date to the mid-second century—almost certainly copies of copies. (There is a fragment of the Gospel of John that is about 115 A.D. and it is the earliest known new testament document.) So if the plates can be reliably dated to the fall of Jerusalem, they would be the earliest known documents, even though written later than the epistles.


55 posted on 03/30/2011 9:47:40 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: MHGinTN

I’ve only scanned through it and I didn’t recall other than it said possible hebrew-christian.

This caught my eye.

“Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book Of Revelation.”


56 posted on 03/30/2011 9:49:11 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Just saying.......)
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To: Hodar
Scriptures written on metal plates? Wow ... that sounds vaguely familiar doesn’t it?

Calling joe smith....calling joe smith!!

Wonder if one needs an "urim and thumin" to read the dang things??

Bet there's at least one page in there that that UFO nuts will assert proves the exitance of "ancient astronauts"!!

By the way, does it matter if these here "plates" were found in a sealed mayonnaisse jar on Funk and Wagnal's back porch??

57 posted on 03/30/2011 9:50:06 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason
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To: TaraP
thought you'd like this

(let me know how when it's a movie....hahahaha)

58 posted on 03/30/2011 9:50:44 AM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: UCANSEE2

Perhaps these documents were saved from the Church in a book burning episode when a few determined who and who would not be deemed heretics and assembled PC writings into the Bible


59 posted on 03/30/2011 9:51:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: faq
Looks like a book with seven seals along the top, right, and bottom. Open it up. What could possibly go wrong?

Good catch. Wonder if the person who has these, has already done so? Might explain a few things. Like why we are giving weapons to Muslims so they can kill Christians.

60 posted on 03/30/2011 9:51:33 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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